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Orcin · 04-12-2018, 05:00 PM

I understand your point now. Thanks for being patient.

Referring to your first post, it will be interesting to see if Kershaw, Harper, Machado, and Donaldson all get AAV of $25-40 million for the appropriate number of years in real life this coming offseason (assuming no extensions before they file).

I think the problem in OOTPB is that there is not enough money and demand to handle all of those guys at once. Any one of them would be the biggest guy out there in a normal year. In reality, there will probably be four teams that have positioned themselves to get one of these guys. I am not sure OOTP 19 set the budgets correctly to account for this bounty of great free agents.

This doesn’t address the other point you raised about players, particularly top relievers, taking one year contracts late, but we saw some of that in real life this year too.

04-12-2018, 05:00 PM	#36
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,798	I understand your point now. Thanks for being patient. Referring to your first post, it will be interesting to see if Kershaw, Harper, Machado, and Donaldson all get AAV of $25-40 million for the appropriate number of years in real life this coming offseason (assuming no extensions before they file). I think the problem in OOTPB is that there is not enough money and demand to handle all of those guys at once. Any one of them would be the biggest guy out there in a normal year. In reality, there will probably be four teams that have positioned themselves to get one of these guys. I am not sure OOTP 19 set the budgets correctly to account for this bounty of great free agents. This doesn’t address the other point you raised about players, particularly top relievers, taking one year contracts late, but we saw some of that in real life this year too.